Created 5,000 years ago, the mysterious color has been found on artworks and artifacts throughout the ancient world. But the pigment's recipe was eventually lost to history ...

Murals depicting scenes from the Old Testament found in a Jewish Synagogue in Dura-Europos dating from 244 A.D., will go on public exhibition tomorrow in the Yale Gallery of Fine Arts.

After it was rediscovered, the fragile mural adorning the west wall of the Green Room was copied in the 1920s by Nina de Garis Davies, an Egyptologist, artist and copyist at the Metropolitan ...

A 3,300-year-old palace mural offers an exquisitely detailed view of several bird species, and presents an artistic mystery. A facsimile painting by Nina de Garis Davies of a 3,300-year-old ...

Conservators Are Puzzling Together Ancient Roman Murals Found in Hundreds of Pieces Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor.

Discover a 13th-century Yuan Dynasty tomb in Linfen, China, with painted murals, artifacts, and inscriptions honoring Lieutenant Liu, a military commander.

A team of archaeologists, led by Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán, has unearthed the remains of what appears to be a four-thousand-year-old temple and theater in coastal Peru.

An ancient Peruvian temple discovered under a sand dune is rewriting what we know about civilizations that lived up to 3,500 years before the Inca. The temple reveals the early emergence of ...